Thlipsura

Thlipsura

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThlipsuridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 8 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesDevonian423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413.02 Mya393.47 Mya423.4 Mya387.3 Mya

8 occurrences of Thlipsura on record, most of them in the Devonian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

8 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Shanda Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EOnondaga — 40.42°N, 77.19°WOnondaga — 40.60°N, 77.57°WOnondaga — 39.26°N, 78.53°W

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The named rock units Thlipsura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thlipsura and its relatives

Devonian

Where Thlipsura and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Thlipsura, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 8 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Thlipsura

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Thlipsura was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itThlipsuridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.